Biography

PERSONAL
Resident of Aberdeen. Married to Debra Thomas-Blake.

 

EDUCATION
Aberdeen High School
A. S. Forestry, Grays Harbor C.C.
B. S. Environmental Studies, TESC

 

EMPLOYMENT
10 years logging, Contract Forester for Weyerhaeuser Co.
3 years Environmental Specialist III, Dept. of Corrections

 

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Agriculture & Natural Resources – Chair

Business & Financial Services

General Government Appropriations & Oversight

ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Joint Legislative Committee on Water Supply during Drought
Electron Dam Salmon Passage Work Group
Recreation on State Trust Lands Work Group
Council of State Governments – WEST Legislative Council on River Governance
Western Legislative Forestry Task Force
Coastal Caucus
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

 

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Board member, Coastal Harvest Food-bank Distribution Center

Board member, Lower Columbia Community Action Program

 

PUBLIC SERVICE
Citizen activist lobbying for access to our natural heritage.

 

YEARS IN THE HOUSE
Since 2002

 

LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Family wage jobs
Education
Good natural resources policy